Quotes About Humility

He is the only real revolutionary, the authentic scientist, because he alone knows how liddle he knows.

When he gets uppity about his supposed learning, I just take it on myself to remind him that God and his angels know almost as much as college professors.

The most solid piece of scientific truth I know of is that we are profoundly ignorant about nature.

I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant. Come to think of it, this might be a good place to start.

We are, after all, not gods.

Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind and someone who knew a few things about hubris and humility, once said, "Life does not have an obligation to give you what you expect.

Failure doesn't only make us stronger; it makes us smarter and grateful and . . . more humble.

They could fall in love with fresh, new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of otherness, a level far beyond what sort of music they liked. It seemed to her everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners. It was easier to pretend there was nothing more to know, to fall into an easygoing companionship.

Real people don't have the answers. They make mistakes. They say things with great authority and they're wrong.

Perhaps we all need a good thump on the head from time to time?

All of a sudden she thought she had all the time in the world. Pride comes before someone trips you flat on your face.

They could fall in love with fresh new people, or they could have the courage and humility to tear off some essential layer of themselves and reveal to each other a whole new level of 'otherness', a level far beyond what sort of music they liked.

The size of the land can be humbling. It puts my human existence into perspective, not in the sense of feeling like a bug on the windshield of life, but more a feeling of belonging to something too big to comprehend. The times when I have a view of the broad vistas sometimes make me feel as big as the land. I love the size of the land, how it rolls on and on, untamed and for the most part untouched.

He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds of it, whether in substance or in form.

You need to have a kind of home port where you put down anchor when the hurricane comes; you must stay connected to your roots. That helps you to have humility and an understanding of your true self.

I have flushed out the feeling, of me being the shit. Cause I was leaving skid marks, on everywhere I sit.

Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.

When Small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.

It really hurts me very much to suppose that I have wronged anybody on earth.

The price of greatness is servanthood, sacrifice and humility

Sadly, God mentions no crowned nags in Proverbs.

People with intellectual humility (and they are rare) understand that there is far more that they will never know than they will ever know. They continually seek to learn more, to develop their intellectual abilities and expand their knowledge base, always with a healthy awareness of the limits of their knowledge.

It was God who made me so beautiful. If I weren't, then I'd be a teacher.

We need to come to God humbly. We are not his master he is our master.